The EU-Turkey Joint Statement of March 2016. An 'ad-hoc' solution to the refugee crisis or a new pillar for the European Common Asylum System external dimension?

The political agreement to involve Turkey in the EU policies aimed at containing the entry of refugees thorough Greece was a milestone in the process of curving the entry of refugees during the 2015/16 refugee crisis in Europe. The agreement consisted on a broad exchange of measures to strengthen th...

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Autores: Moya, David|||0000-0001-9701-8626, Milios, Georgios
Tipo de recurso: capítulo de libro
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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Idioma:inglés
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Palabra clave:Refugee crisis
European Union
Turkey
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spelling The EU-Turkey Joint Statement of March 2016. An 'ad-hoc' solution to the refugee crisis or a new pillar for the European Common Asylum System external dimension?Moya, David|||0000-0001-9701-8626Milios, GeorgiosRefugee crisisEuropean UnionTurkeyThe political agreement to involve Turkey in the EU policies aimed at containing the entry of refugees thorough Greece was a milestone in the process of curving the entry of refugees during the 2015/16 refugee crisis in Europe. The agreement consisted on a broad exchange of measures to strengthen the role of Turkey as a gatekeeper of the European Union borders, in view of the increase of refugees arriving to the EU soil through Turkey and the general perception that the Syrian war could send more refugees in the following years. The present text aims at providing the context for the political agreement, a review of the measures that it entailed and their legal implications, and it will also bring to light some of the problems that rose at the implementation stage. It will take stock of the further geo-political developments that affected the treaty, and particularly the failed 'putch' in Turkey and the state of emergency decreed afterwards that indirectly cast doubts on the continuity of the agreement. Against an official narrative that stresses the efficacy of the agreement and its role in decreasing the risks of deaths at sea and the fight against traffickers, the paper underlines several shortcomings of that approach.Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. CER MIGRACIONS, Servei de PublicacionsCentre d'Estudis i Recerca en Migracions (CER-Migracions) 22018-01-0120182018-01-01Capítol de llibrehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_3248VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPartapplication/pdfhttps://ddd.uab.cat/record/194914reponame:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UABinstname:Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaInglésengAgència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003030 2018/SGR-1524open accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, i la comunicació pública de l'obra, sempre que no sigui amb finalitats comercials, i sempre que es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original. No es permet la creació d'obres derivades.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ddd.uab.cat:1949142026-06-06T12:50:31Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The EU-Turkey Joint Statement of March 2016. An 'ad-hoc' solution to the refugee crisis or a new pillar for the European Common Asylum System external dimension?
title The EU-Turkey Joint Statement of March 2016. An 'ad-hoc' solution to the refugee crisis or a new pillar for the European Common Asylum System external dimension?
spellingShingle The EU-Turkey Joint Statement of March 2016. An 'ad-hoc' solution to the refugee crisis or a new pillar for the European Common Asylum System external dimension?
Moya, David|||0000-0001-9701-8626
Refugee crisis
European Union
Turkey
title_short The EU-Turkey Joint Statement of March 2016. An 'ad-hoc' solution to the refugee crisis or a new pillar for the European Common Asylum System external dimension?
title_full The EU-Turkey Joint Statement of March 2016. An 'ad-hoc' solution to the refugee crisis or a new pillar for the European Common Asylum System external dimension?
title_fullStr The EU-Turkey Joint Statement of March 2016. An 'ad-hoc' solution to the refugee crisis or a new pillar for the European Common Asylum System external dimension?
title_full_unstemmed The EU-Turkey Joint Statement of March 2016. An 'ad-hoc' solution to the refugee crisis or a new pillar for the European Common Asylum System external dimension?
title_sort The EU-Turkey Joint Statement of March 2016. An 'ad-hoc' solution to the refugee crisis or a new pillar for the European Common Asylum System external dimension?
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Moya, David|||0000-0001-9701-8626
Milios, Georgios
author Moya, David|||0000-0001-9701-8626
author_facet Moya, David|||0000-0001-9701-8626
Milios, Georgios
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Centre d'Estudis i Recerca en Migracions (CER-Migracions)
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Refugee crisis
European Union
Turkey
topic Refugee crisis
European Union
Turkey
description The political agreement to involve Turkey in the EU policies aimed at containing the entry of refugees thorough Greece was a milestone in the process of curving the entry of refugees during the 2015/16 refugee crisis in Europe. The agreement consisted on a broad exchange of measures to strengthen the role of Turkey as a gatekeeper of the European Union borders, in view of the increase of refugees arriving to the EU soil through Turkey and the general perception that the Syrian war could send more refugees in the following years. The present text aims at providing the context for the political agreement, a review of the measures that it entailed and their legal implications, and it will also bring to light some of the problems that rose at the implementation stage. It will take stock of the further geo-political developments that affected the treaty, and particularly the failed 'putch' in Turkey and the state of emergency decreed afterwards that indirectly cast doubts on the continuity of the agreement. Against an official narrative that stresses the efficacy of the agreement and its role in decreasing the risks of deaths at sea and the fight against traffickers, the paper underlines several shortcomings of that approach.
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